Get Off Foreign Oil and Get On Foreign Money

[Moby]

This is something that bothers me more at a philosophical level then anything else. Since 2001 we've gone a massive borrowing spree from other countries. We've drastically increased spending and at the same time massively increased our borrowing of money from other countries.

We're now making a big push that we need to get off foreign oil but we're insisting on staying on foreign money.

We can generate enough money to support ourselves but we choose not to.

While we seem to insist on increasing our need for money and oil why are the approaches so different?

1. It's a matter of national security to give away our oil to the public traded oil companies.
2. It's not a matter of security to pay our bills.

[Bill]

Republicans believe in sticking the kids with the bill - a bill hugely inflated with interest.

Like a lot of things republicans are all about - they say one thing and do another - and the other always costs the taxpayers more.

[disrupter]

We have no commanding vision of
where we are,
where we might like to be,
and the most efficient path to approach that.

Supposedly we all have forebrains designated to forethought, but the active evidence wouldn't back that up.

I suppose part of it is we don't have some small subset of goals that we as a society/nation, uniformly share.

Hard to get organized when everyone is going in different directions.

[Cat slave]

Republicans believe in sticking the kids with the bill - a bill hugely inflated with interest.

Like a lot of things republicans are all about - they say one thing and do another - and the other always costs the taxpayers more.

You cant tell the two parties apart anymore. They are both way left of center.

[Moby]

You cant tell the two parties apart anymore. They are both way left of center.
What do you consider center? I mean I know the Neocons are way left of the conservatives that I love but not all republicans are Neocons. It just seems to be the ones that the radio nuts support.